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After of 11 years of wrangling artists, arranging sessions and finalizing details, former Paul McCartney producer Ralph Sall is ready to release The Art of McCartney, a massive collection of new covers of songs originally written by the one-time Beatles...

The Cure, Franz Ferdinand and Alt-J lead a cadre of musicians who have joined the charity Attitude is Everything's new #MusicWithoutBarriers campaign, which seeks to improve deaf and disabled people's access to live music.
Robert Smith Explains the Cure's...

They came from places like Athens, Georgia, and Manchester, England: Bookish (and often brooding) alt-rock savants whose snarling attitude and sharp wits soon found a home among cool-kid radio stations across the land.

The Cure have tentatively titled their next record 4:14 Scream, as a play on words off the title of their last record, 2008's 4:13 Dream, Rolling Stone has confirmed. The album, which the group recorded at the same time as its 2008 LP, will come...

Riot Fest will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in three cities this year, with the lineups for its Chicago and Denver editions joining the previously announced Toronto festival in showcasing a diverse roster of talent.
The Cure, Jane's Addiction, Wu-Tang...

After making seemingly dismissive comments about the Cure's forthcoming 4:14 Scream LP, frontman Robert Smith has explained how the album came together and why he is indeed happy with it.
In a post on the Cure website titled "As Clearly and Succinctly...

Arcade Fire scored some pretty solid advice from Neil Young after a Thanksgiving feast while the band were still working on their stellar 2013 album, Reflektor. "It was the end of the night and we were leaving," frontman Win Butler tells Rainn Wilson...

2013

The Cure have booked another major festival appearance, joining the bill for this year's Voodoo Music + Arts Experience. Robert Smith and Co. have been named the festival's third headliners, reports Consequence of Sound, joining previously announced top-bill...

Lollapalooza kicks off today in Chicago with artists like Nine Inch Nails, Vampire Weekend, Mumford & Sons, Kendrick Lamar and Queens of the Stone Age, but those who can't make it out to Grant Park can rest easy with plenty of live streams from the...

Atoms for Peace, Kings of Leon and Muse are among the artists set for this year's Austin City Limits Music Festival. Phoenix, Wilco, Vampire Weekend, the Cure, Depeche Mode, the National, Passion Pit, Queens of the Stone Age and Kendrick Lamar will also...

Closing out a festival is no easy task, and Thomas Mars knows it. "Usually on Sunday night people are really tired," the Phoenix singer told the Lollapalooza crowd last night, kneeling into the front row of a sea of people gathered for the French band's...

It's the heart of summer, and that means it's nearly time for Lollapalooza. For the ninth straight year, the massive festival touches down in Chicago's Grant Park and, per usual, it comes equipped with a massively stacked lineup. Check out our picks for...

Nine Inch Nails, the Cure and Mumford & Sons are among the big names set for this year's Lollapalooza. Phoenix, the Killers, Vampire Weekend, Queens of the Stone Age, the National, New Order and the reunited Postal Service will also play the...

2011

The Cure have announced plans to perform their first three albums – 1979's Three Imaginary Boys, 1980's Seventeen Seconds and 1981's Faith – in their entirety at a series of concerts in London, Los Angeles and New York City. The band previously...

This week in rock history, James Brown unleashed a funk classic, Bob Dylan filmed “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” the Cure released their masterpiece, Led Zeppelin reformed at a wedding, and John Frusciante left the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
May...

Nominations for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s class of 2012 are in. Guns N’ Roses, the Cure, Heart, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Eric B. and Rakim, the Spinners, the Small Faces/Faces, Freddie King and Rufus with Chaka Khan are all hitting...

2010

The Cure's 1989 masterpiece gave goth its Dark Side of the Moon — an alienated opus from a tortured star that only deepened his fame. Robert Smith translated the gloom of their gory early-Eighties records into sweeping stadium rock on great, woozy...